Baltimore Hebrew Institute's Podcast

January 7, 2015, Mizrachi (Sephardi) immigrants in an Ashkenazic run state Ashkenazi romantic and patronizing attitudes toward Mizrachim Waves of immigration Mizrachi music as Israeli culture

December 17, Ingathering of the exiles; post-Holocaust dreams and realities Holocaust survivors in Israel German reparations New historians and the failure of rescue during the Holocaust Eichmann on trial The meaning of Yad Vashem

Institution Building Ben Gurion's malachtiyut: the state comes before everything Challenges of the Supreme Court Rabbanoot (rabbinate): good or bad for the Jews? Ministry of Education

Law of Return and Who is a Jew? Who is a Jew defined Judaism (Orthodox and non-Orthodox) in the Jewish state The Law of Return; The Brother Daniel case The conversion crises (1988; 1997-98)

November 19 Status Quo and modus vivendi Religion in Israel's early days The status quo (religious) agreement Ben-Gurion's understanding of the Diaspora